17 Days Through the Western Desert to the Gilf Kebir & Nile Cruise

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17 Days Through the Western Desert to the Gilf Kebir & Nile Cruise

1^st Day: Cairo – Al Bahariya Oasis

In the early morning we will pick you up at the reception of your hotel in Cairo and you will travel to the Al BahariyaOasis. If you stay in any other part of Egypt such as Luxor or the Red Sea we can of course organize the transfer to Cairo for you.

Al Bahariya is one of the biggest and most important oases in the Western Desert. Visit the town of Al-Bawiti where you can see the oasis’ fruit-growing and lifestyle, and discover remains of the region’s history. Lunch will be served in a local restaurant. A necropolis of the Greco-Roman contained countless different mummies, among them numerous gold-plated ones, the so-called ‘Golden Mummies’. You will see some of them here in the museum. Further you can see the remains of Ain Al-Tibniya, a temple dating back to the reign of Alexander the Great who is said to have passed by this oasis, the tomb of Banentiu where you can see well preserved colored hieroglyphs and paintings, and the temple area of Ain Al-Muftella with four around 2,600 years old chapels whose walls are preserved up to a height of around two meters, showing various beautiful decorations. The evening will be at your own disposal. You will have dinner in your hotel.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner included. Overnight in a hotel in the Bahariya Oasis.

2^nd Day: Al Bahariya Oasis – Black Desert – White Desert

After an early breakfast you will drive into the Black Desert with its countless rock formations and witness buttes covered by black basalt. Then we will have lunch before you will see the famous Crystal Mountain, a ridge laced with sparkling crystal, and the scenic Valley of Al-Agabat where white cliffs meet sand dunes and yellow limestone rocks. Finally you will enter the stunning landscape of the White Desert National Park. Once the seabed of an ocean it features myriads of white chalk sediments, formed by the rough desert weather to spectacular shapes. You will encamp in the late afternoon, and after dinner you will spend the first night under the unique starlit desert sky.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner included. Overnight in a hotel in the Al Bahariya Oasis.

3^rd Day: White Desert – Ain Della Oasis

In the morning you will continue to explore the White Desert; you will spend the night camping near the Ain Della Oasis with the Great Sand Sea just in front of you.